Christmas Wreaths

• Vegetarian

• Produce

  • 40 g Cranberries, dried small
  • 1/2 Lemon, Zest of
  • 1/2 Orange, zest of

• Baking & Spices

  • 200 g (all purpose flour, plain
  • 40 g Icing
  • 75 g Rice flour
  • 1 tsp Spice, mixed
  • 45 g Vanilla caster sugar
  • 100 g White chocolate

• Nuts & Seeds

  • 40 g Pistachio nuts

• Dairy

  • 225 g Butter, unsalted

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Description

Ingredients

• 75g/ 1/2 cup rice flour
• 200g/ 11/2 cups plain (all purpose flour)
• 225g/ 1 cup unsalted butter - cubed
• 40g/ 1/3 cup icing (confectioner) sugar
• 45g/ 1/4 cup vanilla caster sugar
• 1tsp mixed spice
• Finely grated zest of 1/2 an orange
• Finely grated zest of 1/2 a lemon
• 100g/ 3/4 cup white chocolate – chopped & melted
• 40g/ 1/4 cup pistachio nuts – finely chopped
• 40g/ 1/4 cup dried cranberries – chopped small

Directions

• Put the flours, sugars, spice, citrus zests and butter into a bowl and rub together using your fingertips until the mixture first resembles breadcrumbs and then starts to bind together. Knead briefly and gently until the mixture forms a smooth biscuit dough
• Roll out on a lightly floured work-surface to approximately 1/2 cm (1/4 inch) thick. Press out circles of the dough using a pastry cutter with a diameter around 7cm (2 1/2 inches). R-roll the dough once and cut out any extra biscuits that you can
• Using a much smaller cutter* of around 2cm (3/4 inch) in diameter, cut out the middle of the biscuits, then lay the biscuits on baking sheets and chill for 30 minutes before baking. Meanwhile preheat the oven to 140°C/ 275°F/ GM 1
• Bake the biscuits for 25-30 minutes until very lightly golden - you are not looking for these biscuits to brown significantly – they are cooked long and low to get a nice crunch without a suntan
• Once baked, allow to cool for a couple of minutes on the baking sheet then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely
• Drizzle the melted white chocolate over the cooled biscuits, zig-zagging as you go. Finally, sprinkle the cranberries and nuts over the top. Once set, you may need to carefully poke any chocolate/ cranberries & nuts through the middle to reveal the whole.